Improvement in hay and cotton presses



4fully described hereinafter.

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LEVI DEDERIOK, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVNI ENT IN HAY AND COTTON PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. liLSPBIP, dated May 16,1851.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LEVI DEDERIOK, of the city andcounty of Albany, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPresses for Pressing Cotton, Hay, 85e.; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specication, inwhich- Figure l is a side view of the box or case in which the cotton orother article to be pressed is placed. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a section in perspective showing the manner in whichthe side door is fastened. Fig. 4 is a section in perspective showingthe manner in which the top doors are fastened. y

Similar letters of reference' indicate corresponding parts in each ofthesevcral figures.

The nature of my invention consists in having the case or box in whichthe-cotton, hay, or other article to be pressed is placed of rectangularform, and placed in a horizontal po- `sition, said box or case alsobeing higher than it is wide, so that the bale, when pressed, stands onend.

My inventionl also consists in a peculiar manner of fastening orsecuring the V,top and side doors of the case or box. This will be Toenable others skilled in the art to make andV use my invention, I willproceed to describe fully its construction. A, Figs. 1 and 2, representsthe case or box vin which the cotton, hay, or other article to bepressed is placed. This box or case is of rectangular form, and israther greater in height than width. It is provided with two doors, B B,on its top, and it is also provided with a door, C, one at each side, ifdesired. The article to be pressed is placed in the box or case Athrough the top opening, which is covered by the doors B B when closed,and the case or box Amayhave either one or two followers. If twofollowers are used, there is one at each end, and the cotton,

hay, or other article is pressed at the center of the case or box, theside door, C, being at the center of the case orbox, as seen in Fig. l.If only one follower is used, the side door is of course placed at oneend of the side instead stile D.

4 of the center. Vhen the article is pressed,

the side door is opened and the bale is removed from the box or case,the bale standing on end, owing to the shape of the box, as

in order that it may resist the pressure that comes upon it, and thefastening should also be so constructed that the door may be opened andsecured,`whcn closed, with facility. The construction of myfastening-the one 4ernployed on the side door-will be understood byreferring to Fig. 3. The door Gis secured to a stile, D, having smallround tenons a aone at each end--Which fit loosely in recesses in thetop and bottom pieces b b of the frame in which the box or case A issecured. To this stile and also to the door C are secured two arms orbattens, c c, the outer ends of which project a short distance beyondthe edgev of the door O. Eis a stile attached to the pieces b b in thesame manner as the stile D, but not attached to the door O. This stile Ehas recesses d d, which, when the door C is closed, fit over the end ofthe battens c c. F is an arm or lever attached to the stile E by apivot, e. When the door O is closed, the outer end of this arm or leveris fitted in a recess, in the cesses dd. The ,top doors, B B, aresecured,

when closed, by means of a bar, G, attached byra hinge, g, to the edgeof one of the doors B. This bar G is provided at each end with a flange,h, (more particularly shown in Fig. 4,) and these flanges h 71., whenthe bar G is turned over in the position as seen in Fig. 2,

nt under or in caps i' i', attached tothe twotop pieces I) b. The bar G,when turned down,

as seen in Fig. 2, is directlyovei1 the ends of the two doors, and asthe anges h h itin the caps c' i, which are attached tothe pieces b b, Ythe doors are consequently secured, and as the flanges h 7L upon the bar(l hook in behind the flanges on the caps i i and lock the top edges of(See Fig. l.) Thus the door G is made perfectly secure, the outer endsof the the sides of the box rmly together in the eenter, Where it ismost necessary, so as to prevent them from being spread by the pressureinside. When the doors B B are opened, the bar G is removed With one ofthem, so as to leave the entire surface of the box open and elear of allobstruction, so that it may be lled With the greatest facility. Bymerely raising the lever H to a vertical position, as seen in Fig. 4f,the bar Gis turned, so as to free the flanges h h from the eaps z i, andthe doors maybe raised or opened.

Having thus'deseribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire-toseeure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The bar G, hinged to one ol" the doors,

and capable of being removed therewith fromY the opening, in combinationwith the capsi i, by which it is retained immediately overl the ends ofthe tWo doors, effeotually resisting the pressure from Within, andkeeping them closed during the operation of pressing.

2. Providing the caps i lWith iianges on the interior sides, by means ofwhich the bar G is enabled to aid in supporting and binding together thetwo sides of the press during the greatest strain upon them. v

LEVI DEDERICK.

